475 So. 2d 255 - State v. Bentley’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
May 1999
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Remorsefulness is an appropriate, albeit quite easily feigned, consideration”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rife
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.